@codingame/monaco-editor-wrapper

@codingame/monaco-editor-wrapper ·

Synopsis

Monaco editor wrapper that adds some features and improvements to it:

• It uses VS Code extensions for all languages, including:
  • TextMate grammars
  • Language configurations
  • Language snippets
  • Language default editor configuration
• Language resources loading are lazy using dynamic imports (compatible with webpack)
• It requires using VS Code themes instead of Monaco themes and includes default vscode themes
• Keybindings and user configuration like in VS Code
• Vim and Emacs modes
• It configures the workers
• It adds some features:
  • Smart tabs in Cobol
  • A way to register a text model content provider and a editor open handler
  • It allows the opening of an overlay editor when navigating to an external file
  • It adds some language aliases

Installation

npm install @codingame/monaco-editor-wrapper

Usage

Simple usage

The monaco-editor api should be used except for the editor creation. Instead of using monaco.editor.create, you should use the createEditor exposed by this library.

Embed language IntelliSense

By default, monaco-editor contains worker to achieve IntelliSense in CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON and HTML.

To enable them, import the following files:

• JSON: import '@codingame/monaco-editor-wrapper/features/jsonContribution'
• JavaScript/TypeScript: import '@codingame/monaco-editor-wrapper/features/typescriptContribution'
• CSS/SCSS: import '@codingame/monaco-editor-wrapper/features/cssContribution'
• HTML: import '@codingame/monaco-editor-wrapper/features/htmlContribution'

Additional apis

User configuration

This library exposed some functions to manage the user global configuration:

• registerDefaultConfigurations Allows registering default values for some configuration keys which can be overridden
• updateUserConfiguration Update the user configuration, overrides the default configuration, uses the same syntax as VS Code configuration
• getUserConfiguartion Get back the current user configuration
• onUserConfigurationChange Get notified when the user configuration change (either after calling updateUserConfiguration or from internal configuration update)
• getConfiguration Allows to get a given configuration key in a given language
• onConfigurationChanged Listen to configuration change
• updateKeybindings aAlows to update the editor keybindings with the same syntax as in VS Code
• updateEditorKeybindingsMode Switch between vim, emacs or classic keybindings